Simple Name & Qualified Name

[Andy Smith]

signature of startElement is:-
public void startElement(String namespaceURI,
String sName, // simple name
String qName, // qualified name
Attributes attrs)

What is the diffence between the Simple Name & the qualified name ???

[Hari Vignesh Padmanaban]

Hi Andy,
The startElemnt() tag syntax (which I assume You picked up from the org.xml.sax.ContentHandler interface) is better defined as
public void startElemnt(string namespaceURI, string localName, string fullName, Attributes attributes)
Before going into the definition of the names, consider the following element
<p:name xmlns ="http://www.clearMyDoubts/XML/names" ></p:name>
In teh above case
the elemnt "name" belongs to the namespace "p" defined by "http://www.clearMyDoubts/XML/names"
simpleName(sName) or localName = Just the name of the elemnt which is just the name of teh elemnt, without teh namespace it is associated with !!. In our case it will be --> name
qualifiedName(qName) or fullName = The full name of teh elemnt , including the namespace it is associated with, that is, the name of teh elemnt along with the prefix !!. In our case here it will be --> p:name

Hope this clears your doubt

[Andy Smith]

Hi Hari ...
Thanx for the instant reply...
i will try this one
Thanx once again,

[Andy Smith]

Hari i tried running this ...on simple xml file
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<p:name xmlns ="http://www.clearMyDoubts/XML/names" ></p:name>

Result:
NamespaceUri is coming blank,
simplename is blank
Qname is p:name
can u please tell me y namespaceuri and simplename are blank???

[Hari Vignesh Padmanaban]

Hi Andy,
You dint define the name space for p
Here is your definition:
1.<?xml version="1.0"?>
2.<p:name xmlns ="http://www.clearMyDoubts/XML/names">
</p:name>
In Line 2, you have to define waht namespace p occupies. So it should be "xmlns :p " instead of "xmlns". That is why, you are geting teh namespace as blank !!
Unfortunately, in my previous posting, "xmlns :p " was converted to a smiley face, becase of teh quoataion ":" ..
Sorry about that

[Andy Smith]

Hari thanx once again for the instant reply..
this time i tried with
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<p:name xmlns ="http://www.clearMyDoubts/XML/names"></p:name>
but unfortunately i m getting the same result ..
blank namespace..blank simplename,
QName = p:name
Any idea???

[Hari Vignesh Padmanaban]

Hi Andy,
I am not sure y u are getting taht output ..
here is the code I used

public void startElement(String nameSpaceURI, String localName, String fullName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException
{
System.out.println("Start element Name: " + localName);
if(!nameSpaceURI.equals(""))
{
System.out.println("Is in Namespace Full Name: " + fullName);
System.out.println("NameSpace URI is : " + nameSpaceURI);

}
for(int i = 0 ; i < attributes.getLength(); i++)
System.out.println("\tAttribute Name: " + attributes.getLocalName(i) + " Value: " + attributes.getValue(i));
}

File is

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<p:name xmlns :-P	 ="http://www.clearMyDoubts/XML/names" ></p:name>

and output is

Start element Name: name
Is in Namespace Full Name: p:name
NameSpace URI is : <a href="http://www.clearMyDoubts/XML/names" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.clearMyDoubts/XML/names</a>

hope this helps !! :-)

[Andy Smith]

hi Hari....
Im too sorry to say..but still i m getting the same results..
Can there be any Parser Configuration issue..???

[Hari Vignesh Padmanaban]

what are you using andy?
I think you might be using teh sax package from java ?
let me know ..in nay case here is teh link to my source files ...
http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~hari/html/tutorials/xml/src/SAX/
Good Luck
If you still face problems, post the code..lets debug it together